My work on the St. Petersburg Stock and Commodity Exchange, and the history of the St.Petersburg Exchange on Basil Island.

You can look at SketchUp model of The Old Saint Petersburg  Exchange  by following  this link:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?id=c6bdec0a533bd9d9715391b67e691b1a&prevstart=0

While working at the  Siberian Trade Bank  at Nevsky Prospekt, 44 I have often had to visit the St. Petersburg;s Stock and Commodity Exchange.

The building of Old Saint Petersburg  Exchange is located in the  Vasilyevsky (Basil) Island.This  is a significant example of the Greek Revival architecture. This building was designed by the famous French architect Thomas de Thomon and inspired by the Greek Temple of Hera at Paestum. This building of St. Petersburg  Exchange was constructed between 1805 and 1810.

The Exchange was designed for business transactions with merchants arriving in St. Petersburg  from all over the Would.

The View of the Exchange from the Bolshaya Neva river(1810s).

Bonshtedt, Ludwig Franz Karl - View of the Spit of Vasilevsky Island, Hermitage

The Building of St. Petersburg's Stock and Commodity  Exchange (1890).

The building of Old St. Petersburg  Exchange in 2012.

This building is used for the  exhibition of the Russian Central Naval Museum now.

The Exchange Square now.
Some  information of this post is taken from the diary of Adrian Fedorovich  Timofeev(1882-1954) - mathematician, socialist, revolutionary, financier and banker.

The full  text of diary  (in Russian) is on

http://opentextnn.ru/history/familisarchives/Timofeyevs_family_Archives/Adrian_Timofeev/